Prevalence ofCandida dubliniensisamong the stored vaginalCandidaisolates in a Turkish hospital.

In this study, 600 storedCandidaspecies, isolated from vaginal samples of immunocompetent women, and phenotypically identified asC. albicanson the basis of a positive germ tube test, were screened for the presence ofC. dubliniensisby three phenotypical methods. Only one strain (0.17%) failed to grow at 45 °C, and produced abundant chlamydospores on both the cornmeal-Tween 80 agar and the Staib agar. This strain was identified asC. dubliniensisby using the ID-32C kit (bioMerieux Vitek) and confirmed by DNA sequencing ofinternal transcript spacer (ITS) region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]